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Borderlands of Identity

Our inaugural digital issue 

A digital issue on displacement, diaspora, the body, gender non conformity, family and resistance—released piece by piece, culminating in our first print edition.

Issue Snapshot

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THE PLACES
POWER KEEPS

by Rawand Abu Ganem

December 1st, 2025

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Written from inside a tent in Gaza during the winter of 2025, this lyrical testimony captures how something once gentle—rain—has become another force of terror. Moving between memory and survival, the writer recounts caring for her children as water floods their shelter, revealing how war transforms even the most ordinary elements of life into threats. A meditation on motherhood, loss, endurance, and what it means to keep breathing while waiting for the surface.

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